Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/26 August

• 1958 - A NOTS-EV-1 Pilot fails to launch a scientific satellite.
• 1966 - A Titan IIIC fails to launch a DSCS satellite.
• 1970 - A Thorad-Agena launches the OPS-8329 satellite.
• 1974 - A Soyuz launches the manned Soyuz 15 mission.
• 1976 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 850 satellite.
• 1978 - A Soyuz-U launches the manned Soyuz 31 mission.
• 1980 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1208 satellite.
• 1981 - Voyager 2 flies by Saturn, passing within 100,000 kilometres (62,000 mi) of the cloud tops.
• 1982 - A Delta 3920 launches the Anik D1 satellite.
• 1994 - A Zenit-2 launches the Kosmos 2290 satellite.
• 1999 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 2366 satellite.
• 2005 - A Rokot launches the Monitor-E satellite.